Who remebers lawrence welk? I think he was born in the dakotas...but he still had a german accent. Ah one An a two...oompah pah..Those bubbles really got to me.
Speaking of Lawrence Welk and his accent ... I live in an area of Wisconsin where the farmers (who were all born here) still speak with German accents. Their ancestors immigrated here and purchased their farms in the 1840s. School was conducted in German here 1/2 of each day until WWII.